Fauna-Focused HRI Research Scientist

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 157,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in New York, NY is seeking an HRI Research Scientist to develop interactions that make robots feel alive, personal, and fun. You will advance verbal and non-verbal conversational systems, social dynamics, memory, and long-term relationship formation between robots, environments, and people.

This role focuses on expressive, socially intelligent, and trustworthy interactions. Ideal candidates will have a PhD or Master''s plus 4+ years in quantitative research, with

Qualifications

• PhD or Master''s degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience.
• Experience applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products.
• Experience analyzing both experimental and observational data sets.

Responsibilities

• Develop verbal and non-verbal conversational systems for human-robot interaction.
• Study social dynamics, memory, and long-term relationship formation between robots and humans.
• Advance robotics by enabling expressive, socially intelligent, and trustworthy interactions.

Skills

Agile development

Web dashboards

R/Python/MATLAB

Education

PhD or Master''s degree

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in New York, NY is seeking an HRI Research Scientist to develop interactions that make robots feel alive, personal, and fun. You will advance verbal and non-verbal conversational systems, social dynamics, memory, and long-term relationship formation between robots, environments, and people.

This role focuses on expressive, socially intelligent, and trustworthy interactions. Ideal candidates will have a PhD or Master''s plus 4+ years in quantitative research, with